5G, how the big Americans pamper Italy. The Hewlett Packard Enterprise case (welcomed by the Nsa)

30 September 20204 years ago babelfish

How Hpe (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) moves in Italy to undermine Huawei in 5G.

American groups active in 5G are starting to pamper institutions and companies active in Italy to undermine Huawei and apply as Ericsson, Nokia, Microsoft and Cisco to build the 5G network in Italy, while the government has set tough stakes for the Chinese group ( stakes on which analysts, observers and newspapers collide ).

While Mike Pompeo was preparing to cross his homeland, reviving the unresolved discussion of 5G in Italy, those who participated in the webinar "Open 5G – The American alternative to 5G" organized yesterday by the Center for American Studies (Csa) chaired by Gianni De Gennaro – the next president of Banca Popolare di Bari , after not being reconfirmed by surprise by the government president of Leonardo – was able to hear from the voice of the CEO and president of Hpe (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Stefano Venturi, what a possible alternative to Chinese 5G: the Open 5G.

THE HPE ALTERNATIVE TO CHINESE 5G

HPE (which sponsored the CSA seminar, "in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise") is a spin-off of HP that has maintained a specialized telecommunications organization (CMS, it was called OpenCall several years ago), which makes products and specific solutions for telecommunications, in direct competition with Huawei.

“The sworn enemy of Hpe – says an expert cyber security analyst – is Huawei. Ericsson and Nokia are sometimes enemy partners, depending on the market segments. Microsoft is a partner ”.

WHAT HPE DOES

Hpe does not work on the radio part or on the user side devices. Its core business are the products that go to the heart of the network: switching devices, systems that manage text messages, systems that manage prepaid cards, systems that control the network and guarantee its operation, systems that know the position of telephones so they can receive calls.

HPE COMPETING WITH HUAWEI

These characteristics place Hpe's 5G – according to industry analysts – in direct competition with vendors such as Huawei, even if HPE's 5G likes to present itself as "a new way of thinking " to 5G – centered on the keyword "Open 5G" – more dynamic and above all safer.

OPEN 5G

“In the context of 5G”, Venturi explained during the webinar, “our company has decided among the first to marry the Open 5G. This is because we believe that Open 5G is the most effective way to bring IT close to customers, ie where the data is generated and there is a need to manage its use ".

But what does it take to be able to implement Open 5G? To this question, Venturi responded by underlining that "it is about creating an ecosystem of partnerships to bring into the game, bringing innovation into the network". It is the exact opposite of what happens with traditional networks, Venturi clarified, "where one chooses the technology of one vendor or another and the game is over".

PARTNER ECOSYSTEM

From a technical standpoint, what does it mean to bring IT close to customers? “First of all, it means bringing the computational capacity close to the antenna and not the data center. We carry it with very powerful micro-computers that are located where the data is collected. At the same time, we have management software that manage servers in a simple and flexible way. Another strong point is the disconnection between wi-fi and mobile: with the technology we have developed it is possible to pass in extreme safety from wi-fi to mobile ”.

THE PUSH FOR STARTUPS

But the point on which Venturi insists to underline how much the Open 5G solution is the best for security is the fact – he continues – of "allowing local industries of various countries to insert their own layers in the offer, allowing start-ups to enter the game and operators and businesses to rely on the best of the best on the market, without being entrusted to a single vendor that offers both the antenna and the switching and data distribution system ".

THE CHANCE OF THE OPEN 5G

The Open 5G then presents another mother difference compared to Chinese systems. Where Beijing producers are generously subsidized by the state, Venturi stresses, "with the Open 5G you can create an ecosystem of startups and partners that can welcome venture capital, invest it to innovate and move faster than any other to carry on. the new services ".

HPE IS THE ONLY US VENDOR WHICH HAS AN NSA CERTIFIED PLANT

Still on the subject of security, Venturi wanted to point out that HPE is the only US vendor that has a plant entirely certified by the NSA as regards the certification of the security of the software and hardware that are made.

THE CONCLUSION OF VENTURI

“But the best way to have security”, Venturi concludes, “is to have open systems. We therefore believe that many must join the Open 5G, each dealing with a layer. Let's remember all this has to do with the sovereignty of data, which is an opportunity that only an Open5G system can provide ”.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/hpe-5g-nsa/ on Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:10:21 +0000.